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Re:Putting 500k People's DNA Online by rectang on Saturday February 10, 2018 @03:39PM (#16349445)
> What privacy risk, exactly?

People will eventually be identified individually, as inevitably as the people in the AOL search leak years ago. Then they -- and their blood relatives -- will be associated with negative health traits.

And then, companies will discriminate -- in hiring, in insurance... anywhere they can. Because it will be financially advantageous to individual companies even though it is detrimental to society as a whole. Because companies are amoral organisms and it is folly to expect them to behave otherwise.

Re:Putting 500k People's DNA Online by jghn on Saturday February 10, 2018 @05:32PM (#16350024)
We're probably no more than a year or two away from a sequenced genome being considered PHI for exactly this reason.